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Nick Medina’s Indian Burial Ground  is a horror novel that combines stirring storytelling with an exploration of historical racial injustices in Ameri...

William McKinley was assassinated before completing his first term of office as U.S. president in 1901 "after leading the nation to victory in th...

In a presidential election year, eyes turn toward the many distinct groups that make up the electorate. So what's up with the rural voter? It&apo...

Buffalo Bill Cody is one of the iconic figures of the Old West but did you know his Wild West show often involved a cast of 1,500 people who had to be...

Annabel Abbs-Streets discovered she didn't have to suffer at night when insomnia struck. She discovered something else: her night self."The ...

If you don't understand math, you can still enjoy Paul Nahin.Don't get blinded by the 24 books the professor of electric engineering has wri...

You know you've made it in the book world when the author's name is bigger than the title. That's where Mark Greaney finds himself with...

Put aside your fears about a robotic uprising, says Ruth Aylett, a computer science professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, and a ...

Beavers have a long and illustrious history. There were beavers as big as bears for millions of years until some 10,000 years ago. Since then the beav...

Race into space? Not so fast, say Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, the husband-and-wife team whose book, A City on Mars, lays out some of the challenges th...

Godzilla is one of the great movie franchises of our time. But how many people know about the 1955 novella written by Shigeru Kayama, the Japanese sci...

If you're one of those people who has shuddered at the thought of spiders, snakes, or other creepy crawlies invading your space, you might get ne...